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<blockquote data-quote="Scott Bolt" data-source="post: 88652" data-attributes="member: 3950">Re: A&amp;H QU info leaked a day earlyI was not aware until you mentioned in another post that there are actually off-the-shelf IC&#039;s for preamps already.&nbsp; I was aware that the preamp circuit is not that profound even when you use discrete circuitry like in my MixWiz.There is really nothing fancy in there, and the MixWiz preamps sound pretty darned good for the $2.00 worth of parts per channel of discrete through hole parts it has in it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I think that there are likely many more parts of the mixer that have vastly greater effect on the overall sound of the mixer than the preamps, but for some reason, marketing has latched on to the preamp circuit as the &quot;special sauce&quot;.&nbsp; Weird.On the digital consoles, I think that the A/D and D/A IC&#039;s that are off-the-shelf are also pretty good, and pretty standard.&nbsp; That pretty much leaves the DSP algorithms and central processing firmware as a differentiator with respect to sound quality.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scott Bolt, post: 88652, member: 3950"] Re: A&H QU info leaked a day early I was not aware until you mentioned in another post that there are actually off-the-shelf IC's for preamps already. I was aware that the preamp circuit is not that profound even when you use discrete circuitry like in my MixWiz. There is really nothing fancy in there, and the MixWiz preamps sound pretty darned good for the $2.00 worth of parts per channel of discrete through hole parts it has in it ;) I think that there are likely many more parts of the mixer that have vastly greater effect on the overall sound of the mixer than the preamps, but for some reason, marketing has latched on to the preamp circuit as the "special sauce". Weird. On the digital consoles, I think that the A/D and D/A IC's that are off-the-shelf are also pretty good, and pretty standard. That pretty much leaves the DSP algorithms and central processing firmware as a differentiator with respect to sound quality. [/QUOTE]

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